What is the easiest method to move files into current directory in terminal?

Question

I was wondering if there was a cleaner method to move files into the current directory than this:

mv path/to/file ../current_directory

If I wanted to move a file to the directory above I could go:

mv file ..

Is there a way to represent the current directory?

Two dots (..) is directory above, one dot (.) is current DIR. — You'reAGitForNotUsingGit, Jan 30 '17 at 17:39

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 30 '17 at 18:49

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The current directory is ., so you can use:

mv path/to/file .

answered Jan 30 '17 at 18:49

Chai T. Rex

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 30 '17 at 18:35

"PWD" is the environment variable for current directory. So, you can do :

mv path/to/file $PWD/

You can test this yourself, for example :

cd /tmp
touch test-file.txt
mkdir /tmp/test-dir
cd test-dir
echo $PWD
mv /tmp/test-file.txt $PWD/
ls -la $PWD/

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